Let's imagine that we understood DNA programming and our genome very well and realized that there were some significant flaws (we die, we need sleep, etc.) And let's imagine that we understand how to ...

So my major is in pharmacy but both my master and my (currently in progress) doctoral degree are both in theoretical chemistry. My thesis is about quantum chemistry and proteins, but it has a certain ...

I'm a computer scientist who is starting to dabble with biology. My eventual goal is to model different kinds of cells with a computer program. As of right now, I'm just trying to take some smaller ...

I'm looking for a reference that tells me how many recombenation events occur in humans from one generation to the next.
Assuming that the human genome is a 3.3 GigaBases long DNA sequence, how many ...

I am not sure which project database to use UCSC or Ensembl for my asthma study about ADRB2 gene (Arg/Arg-16 genotype).
I am using the original Human Genome Project database at the moment.
However, I ...

Many people on this site ask questions that directly or indirectly have to do with heritability in human.
Do you know a list of estimates of heritability of various traits in humans? Or could you try ...

Cytosine residues in DNA that can be methylated (i.e. CpG sites) are likely to be in the same methylation state if they are geographically (proximally) close together.
I can only find one paper that ...

How many loci in the human genome are heterozygous? How about other species?
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I was wondering, considering for example the whole world population, how many of the human genes actually have two ...

Tired of hearing of these urban legends and popular opinions, I ask this question here to see if there really is scientific merit to this belief. My questions is, is it really "harmful" for a person ...

The major gene of the Y-chromosome is SRY. Would it be possible to get the X-chromosome and add SRY to create a "fuller" Y-chromosome?
What advantage does the skinny Y-chromosome give an individual ...

For most SNPs identified in GWAS studies, is the underlying assumption that if it is indeed associated with a phenotype (and lets assume its associated because it affects protein function), that you ...

I've been reading a bit about "junk DNA" and how much of our genome consists of this "non coding DNA" in comparison to "coding DNA".
I'm just an interested layperson but I thought all combinations of ...

That is, they don't differ throughout the entire population. I understand of course that we can't DNA sequence every human, so by "fully" I mean there's an incredibly small probability of there being ...

I'm wondering if it would be possible to create software (unless some already exists, but I couldn't find any) to generate human DNA (the base pairs on the double helix) containing genes representing ...

Currently it is possible and not so expensive for a person to have his genome. This is useful in general for understanding how life works. But, in practice, how is this useful for the specific person ...